Do We Have Free Will?
offered by Oxford University

Public University
1 Campus
Estd. 1096

Do We Have Free Will?
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Oxford University
Overview

Give a balanced and foundational introduction to the problem of free will

Duration	10 weeks
Total fee	₹19,000
Mode of learning	Online
Course Level	UG Certificate

Do We Have Free Will?
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Oxford University
Highlights

Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university

Do We Have Free Will?
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Oxford University
Course details

What are the course deliverables?

To explain and develop some of the central views on free will and determinism
To analyse, discuss and evaluate some of the solutions on offer
To examine and extract key information from texts that have shaped the debate on whether we are free, determined, or in certain respects both perhaps

More about this course

The problem of free will is one of the oldest philosophical puzzles
Common sense tells us that we are free at least to some extent to do as we like unless we are prevented by external factors, but we also know that as humans we are definitely limited
Is our sense of freedom just an illusion and can we in fact be credited or held responsible for what we do?

Do We Have Free Will?
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Oxford University
Curriculum

Week 0

An Introduction to Teams -Course orientation

Week 1

Introduction to the problem of free will

Week 2

Compatibilism

Week 3

Incompatibilism

Week 4

Freedom, fatalism and divine foreknowledge

Week 5

Minds, selves, agents

Week 6

Actions, reasons, intentions

Week 7

Hard determinism

Week 8

Alternate possibilities and responsibility

Week 9

Free will and experimental philosophy

Week 10

Taking stock

Do We Have Free Will?
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Oxford University
Faculty details

Dr Magnus Moar

Magnus Moar is a graduate of Oxford and Sussex Universities with a doctoral thesis focussing on the work of Kierkegaard. Magnus has a published article on Kierkegaard and Levinas and has been teaching undergraduates for fifteen years.